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title: Total Return Swap Shareholder Wealth Impact
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/5206488/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
index: https://www.ml-quant.com/llms.txt
identifier: SSRN 5206488
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5206488
featured: 2025-04-09
citations: unknown
topic: Risk, Credit & Banking
---


# Total Return Swap Shareholder Wealth Impact

Research indicates that total return swaps used for corporate governance can negatively affect minority shareholders, but can be beneficial when used for risk management.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5206488
- Identifier: SSRN 5206488
- Released: 2025-04-05
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 92 (2025-04-09): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2025-04-09/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Risk, Credit & Banking

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